Can the sequencer strip view follow the scrubbing/playback bar?
A feature very similar to this was added quite recently (about an hour ago 
at the time of writing).


  Animation play: Follow feature. Enabled from playback menu in the
  timeline.
  
  When enabled, ipo, dopesheet, NLA, timeline, clip and sequence editors
  will follow the current frame during animation. When the cursor
  reaches the end of the screen, then the next range of frames of the
  same width is displayed.


To use it you'll have to grab a recent development build. This feature should be in 2.74.
This feature is now available in timeline panel -&gt; playback (next to the start frame field) -&gt; follow.